Wednesday, May 19, 2010

With Cannes's final weekend approaching people are probably leaving town. At least that's the way it happens at other festivals. The only thing exciting left (unless there's a late breaking hit or polarizing cause) is the awards and the first ever Queer Palm which could go a few different ways. But here's a few more tweets and eye candy treats for you.

Le Cinema@cobblehillis POETRY (Lee Chang-dong): Splitting hairs to say it's no SECRET SUNSHINE because it's still terrific, devastating & (sorry for this:) poetic.@guylodge "Anyway, a second helping of "Certified Copy" only enriched the film. People will be studying it for years. Binoche's final scene slays me.@mattnoller "Trying to write up BLUE VALENTINE, I keep typing BLUE VELVET instead. Boy I wish."@ZeitchikLAT "Why can't Americans make movies like CARLOS? The best we could do is Munich.."@akstanwyck "Cannes' The Myth of the American Sleepover vs. Shit Year: One Sings, the Other Doesn't: I'm allergic to pretension..."

Every time I tire of Carey Mulligan as FASHIONISTA, she wins me backVERY Young Hollywood: Faith Wladyka is terrific in Blue Valentine.

The Random@MattDentler "So, the Cannes Film Festival will stream the "Lost" series finale inside the Palais this weekend, right?"@mattnoller "Feeling a strange craving for a hot dog. Might be that I'm sitting three feet away from Jeff Wells."

if you didn't get that last joke... read the previous Cannes tweet reportTime to say au revoir but before that, let's all wish Lindsay Lohan well. She's "lost" her passport in Cannes i.e. in trouble again. Will Lost His/Her Passport become the new Hospitalized For Exhaustion? I've said it before and I'll say it again: We'll know that Lindsay has finally pulled herself together when she stops messing with her beautiful red hair.

Lindsay at a party rather than a film. Bien sur.

If her mane is blond or black or any color wheel slot save red, it's a sure sign she's trying to escape herself. So saith I, Nathaniel, unlicensed Armchair Psychologist to the Stars Actresses. Deal with your issues LiLo and get back to acting. It's something you're good at. When people have such things, they really ought to focus on them. It's a lifestyle choice that guarantees rewards. Not always sensational or exciting rewards but rewards nonetheless.

I'm hoping one day she'll wake up and begin the kind of charmed metamorphosis that Robert Downing Jr underwent.

But then I read reports of her narcissistic enabling parents and I think she'll die ungracefully and be forgotten long before she's done anything worthy of deifying. Which is sad when you consider how glamorously she once promised to shine.

As much as Ryan and Michelle look lovely together, I just loved him with Rachel McAdams. They won me over with that kiss at the MTV Movie Awards.

If they're so set on that damn release date, I hope they at least show the film at NYFF, Toronto, and Telluride to keep the conversation going. I wish them both well. They're both still pretty underrated actors.

Ryan Gosling is "blindingly good looking" and has an incredibly "symmetrical" face? Really? Am I missing something? Talented he is, yes indeed (who else could have made Lars and the Real Girl something other than a sick joke?), and sexy but - it's his assymmetricality and "ordinary" looks (compared to, say, young Brad Pitt, etc) that actually help make him a striking presence IMO.

I don't find Ryan Gosling particularly good looking. He has enough presence, cleverness, and wit to be sexy though. He has these tiny little bitty eyes and that long face and wimpy thin lips, though. I'm more than willing to let Nathaniel have him. Sexy without sensual isn't enough for me.